What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it's making advancement in that area. It never went to one area and couldn't enter to it - that's an indication. How could that army do that if it's a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It's not realistic, it doesn't happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
Bashar al-AssadWhen you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
Bashar al-AssadAl-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that's definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
Bashar al-AssadNobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.
Bashar al-AssadAmerica must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.
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